We’ve been told all our lives that America is a land of equal opportunity. We’ve been told that everyone has an equal chance of getting ahead—of landing a good job, making decent money, having a place to call their own. This ideal has long been called the American Dream. It’s a ...

The other day, late in the afternoon, the dogs exploded with barking. Usually, that happens when an unfamiliar delivery truck comes down the driveway. This time, it was the almost predictable annual arrival of a good friend who had come to park his pickup truck and then walk out to test the ...

With Inauguration Day a few days away, let’s pick up where we left off 13 weeks ago, just before Election Day. The mother in this columnist’s German exchange family, having started school in 1933 and graduated in 1945—think about those years in German history—learned from a young age, ...

Question: Why are there still commercials about Medicare products on TV? I thought Open Enrollment was over? Answer: Many of us are aware of Medicare’s Annual Open enrollment Period running from October 15 to December 7 annually. You may not know about the January 1 to March 31, Medicare ...

Today I am thinking of my mother-in-law. I am not sure why, but I am. Both my mother and mother-in-law died just before Christmas. For several years we lived on the farm in a trailer. She let me have a section of her freezer to keep my grocery things. I also used her cellar for my canned goods. ...

The NYS Governor recently signed a $75 Billion “Superfund” law to compensate so-called “victims” for “damages” done by “extreme climate events”. This is laughable on all accounts, but the effect on our society won’t be. While the rest of the world is discovering the fraud ...